More Vietnamese attempted small-boat Channel crossings in the first half of 2024 than any other nationality. Yet they are coming from one of the world's fastest-growing economies. Why, then ...

The most recent data, which covers the year up to September 2024, shows that the nationalities most represented among small ...

The number of Vietnamese migrants arriving to the UK on small boats has jumped by 177 per cent year-on-year, according to new data on Channel crossings. Home Office figures published on Thursday ...

In small villages along coastal Vietnam, basket boats were born out of financial necessity but have come to represent independence. In the early morning hours, fishermen begin their day by helping ...

The vessel was identified as a Taiwanese fishing boat, measuring 22 meters in length and equipped with a 450-horsepower engine. Border guards in Phu Yen Province, south-central Vietnam rescue crew ...

(AFP/K. GAUGLER)A picture taken in the late 1970s shows a group refugees (162 persons) arrived on a small boat which sank a few meters from the shore in Malaysia. Vietnamese refugee women carry ...

The fishing boats are part of a network ... relentless American bombing during the Vietnam War, the poachers use well-honed bushcraft skills to live as small teams in the forests for three to ...

Vietnam’s VNExpress newspaper reported that ... A few paddled along the road in small boats as empty water bottles, a Styrofoam cooler and other flotsam drifted by; one man pushed his motorbike ...

This was followed by Vietnam (3,132) and Iran (2,948 ... “smash the criminal smuggling gangs making millions out of small boat crossings”. It was launched last July, but there is little ...

In late 1978, huge numbers of refugees began fleeing Vietnam in flimsy boats. Diep Quan was rescued at sea and was among the first of the Vietnamese refugees to arrive in Britain. Show more In ...

Tensions over a Chinese oil rig in disputed waters of the South China Sea rose even further after a Vietnamese fishing boat sank nearby following a collision with a Chinese vessel.